skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related. Others?

ULIDs and Primary Keys (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016413 - April 2024 (33 comments)

Ulid: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878319 - March 2024 (6 comments)

ULID – Sortable Unique Identifier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34281969 - Jan 2023 (23 comments)

Using ULIDs at Incident.io - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34230652 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)

Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794186 - Jan 2022 (100 comments)

Going Deep on UUIDs and ULIDs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28948815 - Oct 2021 (2 comments)

Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160641 - May 2020 (2 comments)

ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18768909 - Dec 2018 (129 comments)

Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier in Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13116308 - Dec 2016 (52 comments)

ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205158 - Aug 2016 (3 comments)
In fact, the US is guilty of genocide as well - it just has a far more effective media control apparatus, which shields its citizens from the outrage they'd experience if they really knew and understood just how responsible they are for such atrocities as, the funding of ISIS, the destruction of Mosul, the destruction of Raqqa, the destruction of Libya, the military support of the genocide of Yemen, and .. on and on.

So yeah "the bigger bully also kills people" might be an effective thought-blocking argument, but that is only the case because that bully has been effectively thought-blocking any inspection of its war crimes by the people, who ultimately pay for them.

Yes, the US should face justice for its war crimes, crimes against humanity, and so on. No, it won't face justice because, instead of frog-marching its war criminals to face justice in The Hague, it has plans to invade The Hague, instead.

Those who support Israels massacre of innocent Palestinians need to be very, very careful about the association with bigger bullies. Just because your allies got away with genocide, doesn't mean you will. (See also: Australia)
You are shifting the goal post.
For better or worse also the fact that in the US it's possible to fire people without any issue (IMHO). Being able to prune underperforming people should mean that those money are better used.

Here in EU I saw many people that basically just clock in/out everyday and then mind their own business because they are un-fireable due to labor laws/unions. A colleague was calling these people "institutionally pre-retired", which I believe it's a great description of the phenomenon. To some extent that happens in the US also in the Public Sector, but I believe it's rarer.
My preference: using traditional incremental numeric IDs and obfuscate them with Hashids (https://hashids.org) when exposed publicly
Where I’m from, exhaust gas creates a phenomenon called smog that can make the air toxic. In environments that were supposed to be designed for humans to live in.

One day, as I was walking to the local grocery store while choking in said gases, I heard a guy say this to his kid: “Quick, let’s get into the car because the air’s horrible”. Can you appreciate how surreal and fucked up this is, that people can just pull up somewhere in their rolling couches, pump stinky toxic shit into the air, and then they, the people who do that, get to be protected from it while pedestrians and cyclists have to breathe it all in?

So yes, over choking in fumes that will probably give you cancer, I absolutely would choose horse manure that might be a biohazard if you rub your face in it but is otherwise completely harmless. Luckily though, this is all a false dichotomy thanks to the invention of the so-called bicycle.
We limit corporate-related speech all of the time. You're not allowed to threaten employees with termination for not enduring illegal activity, for example. You're also not allowed to advertise in certain ways in certain industries: a great example would be the ban on cigarette ads on TV, or the strict regulation around pharmaceutical ads.

Whether or not you agree with these decisions, restricting corporate speech is a very common and accepted practice. His speech isn't limited, FWIW - he's allowed to say it, but the company he works for may suffer operational or economic consequences for it. He won't personally go to jail for it.
Fighting against the Germans unfortunately wasn’t much protection against the insanity of the Soviet regime. This guy is a good example:

Skalski was a Polish aviator and fighter ace who served with the Polish Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace of the war and chronologically the first Allied fighter ace of the war. He returned to Poland after the war but was imprisoned by the communist authorities under the pretext that he was a spy for Great Britain. While in arrest he was tortured and then, in a show trial, sentenced to death on 7 April 1950. Skalski refused to ask for clemency but after his mother's intervention with the president of communist Poland, Boleslaw Bierut, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He remained in prison until 1956 when a court overturned the previous verdict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Skalski
I can think of a few applications of this technology, although some may fall into the deception category, albeit harmless in my view:

- overcoming social anxiety in voice or online calls. It doesn’t take very many bullying incidents during childhood to become convinced you have a horrible or weird voice. I can see this being used as a useful tool to make people feel more comfortable by having a different voice

- amateur interactive fiction development. Having your characters have a real voice in a game in response too the players commands is a real need, and being able to record it yourself and be a different character would be a huge enabler of creating something for a solo developer.

- internal HR videos/podcasts. Creating these can be very expensive, needing different persons reading out dialogue could significantly reduce the effort in recording and producing these

- another instrument for music creators. Auto tune is a very common tool for music production for all skill levels, and this could be applied in a very similar way

It no doubt can be used for disingenuous purposes, any technology can. But these can be real life improving tools enabling many people to do things they never thought possible.

The idea of participating in Q&A session in a webinar would be far too confronting and inconceivable for many people, but to be able to do it semi-anonymously with a different voice would eliminate much of the anxiety preventing them
> Another thing that was not talked about a lot: There are many ways to compromise existing maintainers.

Also not talked about a lot - there are many ways to compromise existing software engineers who are paid to work on proprietary software systems.
There's a Google paper from a year ago that proposes using this as a statistical test to determine if a model was trained on a particular text or not.
Would imagine the same sort of reasons people do v tubing in general, such as safety and anonymity.
Screen sharing was the final hurdle for me. I switched to running Slack in a Chrome tab and it works better than it ever did on X11 for me. I've used it on both my work computers for a few years now and it's been totally solid.
When you get some money, it doesn't really matter whether you spend it or put it under your mattress or even burn it. If you remove it from circulation, your central bank will just print more money to hit their inflation targets.

(Of course, your central bank doesn't check in your garden whether you buried some money. They follow price and spending statistics in aggregate.)

If you dig up your money, the central bank will print less money or even remove money from circulation by selling assets from their balance sheet.

It does make some difference whether you consume or invest. But that's because of a difference in how resources are used.

If you burn your money in a big fire, that's approximately equivalent to a donation to your central bank. If you bury it, and dig it up ten years later, that's approximately equivalent to an interest free loan to your central bank.

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Production isn't useful by itself. Production is what we do to enable consumption. We don't need to worship production nor put it on a pedestal.

Both sports betting and producing the Titanic spends some resources to entertain people. If sports betting spends less resources for each unit of entertainment, that would be great. (In a competitive market, that would drive down the cost of sports betting, eg bookies would compete by offering tighter spreads or more exciting bets or whatever. Alas, I don't know enough about sports betting to tell what people find enticing about it.)

But the resources spend on both running the sports betting systems and on producing Titanic are gone. Those work hours of those thousands of professionals that worked on Titanic don't come back. They are a cost, not a benefit.
I can't give you a clear answer, but this seems to have all the case history:

https://www.nlrb.gov/case/19-CA-297441

And the document "Administrative Law Judges Decision" in that case history seems to be the actual decision:

https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4583d193b2

I guess the section "III. DECISION AND ANALYSIS" is what you're interested in.
During the red scare, there was a movement to try and force professors to sign loyalty oaths stating that they weren’t communist. Imagine that this went one step further: rather than signing a loyalty pledge, they required professors to compose their own loyalty statements. And that they would be judged on the ideological correctness of their statement. For instance, it wouldn’t be enough to pledge not to be communist; they would also had to pledge to be actively anti-communist. This didn’t happen during the red scare, but if you s/communist/racist, it is happening now.
Why? We use random data in lots of applications, and there's always the theoretical probability that it could 'spell something naughty'.
If there anything like that, but for NLP?
The issue is mainly with my work e-mail, which is gmail. I get so much uncontrolled notifications from so many different places that I despise using e-mail.
OpenAI is impressive, but IMO Meta is more likely to find product fit.
Does Containerization Affect the Performance of Databases?
I can't recommend the book X, Y & Z enough. Written by Dermot Turing (Alan's nephew), it's a fascinating story, almost like a spy novel.
Literally anyone can make shitty over-roasted coffee.
This is not a ‘xz moment’, as a sibling comment said, it is norm in open-source.

Someone with more time forked the repo, included the changes that were necessary, build up trust and then this eventually get merged. Now obviously there is no guarantee they will never act up in the future, but this is not different than for the original owner.

Trust is a necessity to open-source reliably functionning, because it in parts makes up for the lack of money, and allow to move fast.

XZ is the exception. And frankly there is not much to do against it.
If the harm to society is 1M$ per car, should we be driving them at all?
Because they don't like anti-government point of views to become too widespread.

In Italy the current defence minister is personally earning considerable amount of money by sending weapons to Ukraine, because he's also an owner and manager of companies that make said weapons.

Do you think they'd want to favour open discussions?

No. In fact besides RT being banned, they want to be able to block any website, giving providers 30 minutes to implement the ban, no appeal and no oversight from a judge (https://stop-piracy-shield.it/)
They are intended to be of historically appropriate quality, for use in creating period versimilitude:

> Many of these fonts have slightly rough edges or irregular shapes, to capture the feel of old lead type and bygone printing technologies
The encoding is completely different? And given that encoding I don't go to any great means to store them as a special type in the db - just text. uuid being hexidecimal, databases often want to store them as binary since that's half the bytes...
Considering the IDF bombed the only media office tower in Gaza? Probably not.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/15/media/associated-press-al...
Quite frankly I hope Wayland doesn't replace X.

The main killer feature for me is how easy it is to run graphical applications over the network using X.
I run a FreeBSD desktop with virtualized Linux, OpenBSD and Windows systems. the ability to run applications like they are on the host system is something I have not yet seen how to do with Wayland.
That probably isn't something good for everyone, it makes trying to guess ids on a busy system so much easier than 60ish bits of random data (just get an id, try to add or remove 1, and if someone else happened to generate another id the same millisecond you've just found it?)

Whether the id is secret or not is a debatable choice, but there's no reason to make it easily guessable; at least that increment should be random with a somewhat large stride...

But in general anyway in a distributed system network latency etc will mean things are just "mostly sorted" which is good enough, keeping the last few inserts in order is much easier than reshuffling the whole db/index all the time
mullivad has a free to use DNS over https service by the way.
We have to put things in perspective.

During the Balkan wars about 5% of Europe's population lived in a country that was at war.

Yet that time period was relatively peaceful compared to the first half of the 20th century where Europe went through two total conflicts.

Yet for me the war in Yugoslavia was of personal significance and I felt it and its longer term effects closely.

But it wouldn't be fair for me to just dismiss that the second half of the 20th century was a time of peace and prosperity in Europe, because a part of it was burning in flames and committing atrocities to who were their brothers 5 minutes before.

The precariousness of peace is what makes it so valuable.

Yes. There are conflicts all around the world. Wars. Oppression. Injustice. Racism.

I don't think that recognizing that we're living unprecedentedly peaceful and just times is going to make those conflicts and injustices worse.

Quite the contrary. I feel that never recognizing the successes and progress that humanity has made in many of those fronts is what will eventually doom us to regress.
But how would Jeff Bezos swim in money if his underpaid parcel couriers would be able to financially survive on working four hours a day?

It's utterly ridiculous how much of the productivity increases of the last decades ended up not distributed to the workers either in terms of wage/salary hikes or reduced working hours. Something like billionaires rarely existed for a long time, usually it was the royal family and that's it - and now, alone in the last 20 years the amount of billionaires is 6x higher than at the start of the millennium. All of that wealth has been looted from the lower classes and in quite a few cases the taxpayers.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/220002/umfrag...
I worked in a small shop in the late nineties where we used gcc during development within the MS Windows environment because MS' own compiler (Visual C++, iirc) produced either (depending on settings) no warnings or buried the relevant ones under those of questionable code in the system header files. We had to use MS's compiler for the final product, as gcc couldn't produce shared libraries in that environment at that time, otherwise we would have gladly used only gcc.
As an Arabic speaker I notice higher standards in the English version of Al Jazeera, I remember a Qatari cameraman was killed in a shooting attack in Benghazi-March 12, 2011, Ali Hassan Al-Jaber, unlike the English Al Jazeera team, was not wearing any protective gear nor had he undergone any media training for covering war zones. Some interesting take on this goes like this: 'Qatar is not only a historical part of the American security and energy system, as is the case with many other countries. The issue is that, thirty years ago, Qatar went through a difficult period - a crisis of legitimacy, a coup, and a real external threat - that shaped Qatari foreign policy and made the regime understand that, in order to become useful and necessary for Washington, it needed to do “more,” to excel. From the rest of the allies in the region, and for it to have a special role that no one else can play.All Qatari policies since then, from the Al-Udeid base to relations with Israel to hosting Hamas and rapprochement with Syria, then waging war against it, all come within this framework. If you do not interpret Qatari policies within their actual historical and functional context, then you are be misled on the real purpose of Al Jazeera channel.
What is interesting here is that the Qatari officials themselves do not hide these matters at all, and they publicize them at every turn and external criticism that comes their way, the latest of which is an official statement from the Qatari embassy in Washington: “We do not act on our heads. We did not host the leadership of Hamas except in response to an American request, and not only with their approval, and the same goes for relations with the Taliban, the Syrian war, and the transfer of money to Gaza was taking place with Israeli approval and under their eyes - we perform the tasks for you.” They say this to the American and Western public exclusively, and as an Arab, when you question Qatari policy and its role, you may not find a single Qatari citizen in the discussion before you. Why do you think, and within any theory of the world, might America ask Qatar to host Hamas or establish relations with Hezbollah?'
Are you familiar with the fine words of Madeleine Albright and her cohorts in PNAC, who very clearly demonstrated the intent to massacre hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's, mostly children, and then proceeded to do so?

Just because the US got away with genocide doesn't mean any other nation should. The American people should be jailing their own war criminals, and then go after those of Russia and Israel and the UK and Ukraine and so on. However, war crimes are good for (American) business. See also: the military support of the genocide of Yemen by a known fascist totalitarian-authoritarian dictatorship.
Have you seen/know about NodeRED? I myself have moved away from HA/OpenHAB-likes to NodeRED as that allows me control that's more... restricting. At its heart NodeRED is a visual programming tool (and I think it wouldn't be a terrible fit for Grafana), but what NodeRED has and Grafana doesn't is a community which built a very significant number of packages that integrate with various protocols and devices used in home automation.

I see a potential for some integration and/or idea sharing here. But it is also important to understand that the set of people who want to fiddle with their homes is much, much larger than the set of people who (are able to) program. Which is why HA and the likes are so popular.
Pulsar: Software-Defined Electromagnetic Warfare
They're only banning the important one :D
This is even worse than it sounds.

Long periods in zero gravity impair astronauts' immune system. Astronauts experience skin rashes and upper respiratory symptoms from mild to difficult during long-duration spaceflights.

New bacteria in a closed environment with immune-compromised people can be life threatening if they can't get back to the Earth.

Pneumonia in space could kill. Gravity is used to clear lungs. Postural drainage https://www.physio-pedia.com/Postural_Drainage positions help to keep lungs clear. Astronauts drowning in their own fluids one after another would kill long range manned missions for NASA.
They have always had deep flaws. Under an uncharitable interpretation you could say that they've always been a farce, I won't argue because it's a perfectly valid standpoint if you're demanding or perfectionistic enough. Under a charitable interpretation you could say that perfect democracy is an utopia, the perfect is enemy of the good, and at least many Western democracies tried, and achieved reasonably good levels of freedom and choice by the people.

Whatever the interpretation, I think it's clear that things are degrading fast in the last few decades. I don't think an EU-wide block on Russian media such as RT wouldn't have passed with such indifference 20 years ago.

That's the most worrying to me: not the measure itself, but the indifference from the general population. In fact, I have another comment in this thread saying that block was abhorrent and it's gathering downvotes... In HN, a community where most are well-educated people from the US, a country that has arguably been the staunchest defender of freedom of expression and of the press. I find that worrying. And then there is cancel culture, and other factors, that have eroded effective freedom of speech.

At this rate, in a few more decades Western democracies will be hard to tell in practice from Chinese authoritarianism, which is worrying, because they have better economic projection, more safety, booming infrastructure, a less aggressive foreign policy... Democracy and freedom is basically what makes the West worth it, if we lose it, what's even the point?
There was a very simple reason for them: to hire more non-Asian minority faculty. Just as with SAT scores, if you evaluate candidates numerically, Asian faculty will take ~50% of the spots and Black faculty will take ~1% of the spots. But if you add a job requirement of "has helped do DEI woo for Black students" then it's a lot easier to justify hiring the Black candidate.
I would not agree.

"In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly."
Yeah, good point, for frontend, influencer code is definitely already leaking.
Nono, it's only undemocratic when china does it.

When the italian government wants to be able to block any website immediately and with no appeal, calling it an anti-piracy measure, it's completely fine and democratic.
How do cycles and lifetime compare? More cycles over long time would lower final unit cost. That is price of kWh at time of release. Which I don't think will ever go down for load shifting.

In the end 3 figures really matter total capacity, power output and cost per "generated" kWh on average over lifetime.
Same as those advancing the anti-motorist policies mentioned in the article.

Buy property on the cheap because it’s on a busy road. Campaign to have the road fully/partially blocked to motor traffic, and/or speed limit reduced to something ridiculous (20mph) so motorists end up using other routes to make progress.

If challenged, claim it’s all about the safety of children walking to school. You’d have to be a monster to deny those windfall gains.
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